[Aslug] Fwd: AS Linux group support fo OLPC Au

[krys haber]

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From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:56:45 +0930
Subject: Re: AS Linux group support fo OLPC Au
To: krys haber <krys.haber at gmail.com>

Hi Krys,

It's great that we have enthusiasm from technical people. From a
professional deployment and support perspective, we need to be careful
about how we enable and engage with our available resources.

I think we need to keep the teacher workshop focused on teaching
rather than technical matters, but we should take careful note of the
technical issues raised so that we can address them afterwards.

To start with, please refer people interested in technical matters to
OLPC Friends: http://www.olpcfriends.org/ . There is a discussion
mailing list at http://lists.olpcfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/ . OLPC
Friends is a community group for people interested in OLPC, and is led
by myself. The goal is to allow people to discuss and contribute
without having to go through OLPC Australia.

I am thinking that we could run a separate workshop for people
interested in technical matters. We should bring Ian in on this.

Regards,
Sridhar


Sridhar Dhanapalan
Technical Co-ordinator
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Australia
p: +61 425 239 701
w: http://laptop.org.au



On 10 June 2010 09:44, krys haber <krys.haber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Crighton and Sridhar
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Last night I talked to the AS  Linux group about the OLPC project.
> They like the idea that AS has the potential to become a Linux town
> due to saturation of AS schools with Linux laptops. They are
> enthusiastic  about the project, and they would like to offer their
> assistance with training and support. Is there anything that you would
> like them to do e.g. come to the teacher workshop and share their
> technical expertise. They work as IT support officers at various
> tertiary educational institutions, hospital, council,  private schools
> etc in AS.
>
> They showed me various GUI Linux installers that can simplify and
> visualise the process of  installing new software
>
> Please let me know what you think
>
> Krys
>